Born To Irish Immigrants

Forrestal was born in New York in 1892, the son of an Irish immigrant. After high school, he spent the next three years working for a trio of newspapers: the Matteawan Evening Journal, the Mount Vernon Argus and the Poughkeepsie News-Press.
 

Attends Princeton

Forrestal entered Dartmouth College in 1911, but transferred to Princeton University and was voted by the senior class as "Most Likely to Succeed".
 

WW-1 Aviator

When World War I broke out, he enlisted and became a Naval Aviator, reaching the rank of Lieutenant Junior Grade.. During the final year of the war, Forrestal spent much of his time in Washington, D.C., at the Office of Naval Operations.


 

Politics And A Career

Following the war, Forrestal served as a publicist for the Democratic Party committee in Dutchess County, New York, helping politicians from the area win elections at both the state and national level. One of those individuals aided by his work was a neighbor, Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Forrestal then returned to William A. Read and Company, earning a partnership, in 1923, before eventually becoming president of the company in 1937.

Appointed Under-Secretary Of The Navy

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt appointed Forrestal as an administrative assistant on June 22, 1940, then nominated him as Under-Secretary, whose job was mobilizing industrial production for the war effort.

 

He Opposes Stalin And Morgenthau

He became Secretary of the Navy on May 19, 1944, and Forrestal then led the Navy through the closing year of the war. In 1945, his distaste for Stalin and his Zionist inner circle became palpable. He referred to the "the menace of Soviet Communism and its attraction for decimated, destabilized societies in Europe and Asia for their future occupation."

He wanted a negotiated peace for Japan, and a reconstruction of Germany.

Morgenthau And His Zionists

Morgenthau wanted the execution of all Nazi leaders, the sterilization of German men, and the industrial infrastructure given to Stalin and his Bolsheviks.

The Berlin Airlift

Forrestal was infuriated at the communist Berlin Blockade. He is seen here with General Clay at the Rhein-Main in Frankfurt, Germany in 1948.

 

The Coming Middle East Cancer

James V. Forrestal was America's first Secretary of Defense. He was also the leading official in the Truman administration opposing the creation and U.S. recognition of the state of Israel.

Zionist Press Go On Full Attack

 

A constant target of attacks from columnists, including Drew Pearson and Walter Winchell. Pearson's protégé, Jack Anderson, later asserted that Pearson "hectored Forrestal with innuendos and false accusations." 

Menachen Begin Had His Fill

In 1946, Menachem Begin's Irgun Gang tried to assassinate Britain's anti-Zionist counterpart to Forrestal, Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin was marked for assassination by the Irgun Gang, but British intelligence stopped it. Forrestal, who was the most conspicuous and forceful anti-Zionist in the Truman administration was next.
 

Irgun Given The Green Light To Assassinate Forrestal

Beginning in 1947, the Zionist extremists actually followed, and harassed, the Secretary of Defense. A close associate of his at the time recalls that at the height of the Palestine controversy, his (the associate's) official limousine was followed to and from his office by a blue sedan containing two men who he thought were Zionist assassins. The police were notified and the men in the sedan were apprehended.

They claimed to be photographers, and under intense pressure from the Federal government, the police let them go.

Truman Fires Forrestal

Truman dismissed Forrestal on March 28, 1949. He suddenly became ill and was flown on a Navy airplane to the Bethesda Naval Hospital five days later. 

Forrestal Is Thrown Out A Window

 In the early morning hours of May 22, his body was found on a third-floor roof below the 16th-floor kitchen across the hall from his room. The Montgomery County, Maryland, county coroner called it a suicide within hours of the death.

His room showed signs of a struggle, and his body was found with a lash around his neck.

Ruled A Suicide

Rather, the first person to get a good look at Forrestal's vacated hospital room found broken glass on his bed,  but "crime scene" photographs taken many hours later, show a bed with a bare mattress, an obvious sign of a cover-up. 

Communist Broadcaster Walter Winchell

Winchell (nee Weitzel) was a second generation Polish Jew, a rabid Zionist, and he hated Forrestal. He painted Forrestal as a suicidal Wall Street crook, a Nazi sympathizer, and a Jew-Hater.

 

Secret Diaries Confiscated By Truman

Forrestal kept diaries on Stalin, Roosevelt, and Truman. He even showed Truman's connections to Albert Anastasia, Dutch Schultz, Louis Lepke, Lucky Luciano, Longy Zwillner, Moe Dalitz, and Ben “Bugsy” Siegel. He threatened to expose the Roosevelt-Truman administration secrets, especially related to the machinations that brought the United States into World War II and the wartime policies that advanced the interests of the Soviet Union.

His voluminous diary was confiscated by the Truman White House.